The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-12-20
TRULY INDEPENDENT.
a JournsymaR Barber Who Had Ever,
Thing His Own Way.


the chair 10 90 into commissions and
straighten out. mo, I'll be hanged il
can see how il is that BARRIERS have
the reputation of being such awful
takers. faint fair. They don't talk
no more than other people, believe,
on the whole, that they don't talk As
much. I'm quiet; I'm no tslker; 1
don't rattle away about nothing. Sis
little higher. please" The victim
was at his mercy.
Speaking Of journeymen BARRIERS"
continued the artist, II once knew one
named Jim Mack who beat any thing
you ever heard Of He worked for me
when i had shop out 1t Denver.
Great hand TO read. Astonishing
reader. Probably one Of the most lit
erary men in the profession. He'd lay
piece Of newspaper on a customers
shoulder. go to reading something on
il. and stand still ten minutes. III the
article wasn't all there he'd go Oh
hunting it up. Perhaps wouldn't get
back for two hours. Customer gets
tired and goes off-may be kick, the
chair to pieces and smashes q mirror
before he leaves-depended on his tenn
per. Never rufTled Jim particle.
Jim used TO 90 TO supper at six
O'Clock. Would be shaving around
mans chin when the six o'clock
whistle blew, drop the razor and start
for his coat; razor cuts mans throat;
good customer gone. perhaps. Took
off the mayor of the city that way.
Man who got shaved every day and
haircut once = month. too. Man also
took baths. Too good customer TO
lose. but couldn't help it. After that I
bad all Jim's r&zors hung over the
chair by an elastic from the ceiling. SD
when he LET 60 Of them at the first toot
Of the whistle they would fly up. and
he wouldn't come back 10 finish his
man after half an hour and find the
coroner and six jurymen in the shop
and business ell demOr2lized.
Remarkably independent man Jim
was, too. Customers couldn't boss
him. He got lots of hair-cuts that way.
IL the man kicked he would put his
arm around him and hold him and cut
it anyhow. One day the Methodist
minister got in his chair, and said jim:
Hair cut. sir?' No. thank YOU said
the minister Better have il trimmed
little said Jim. Not today re-
piled the minister. 1T needs cutting
went on Jim; it's long an bushy. an
shaggy, an has hay-seed in it. an
looks like thunder Il prefer il that
way said the minister. pretty sharp.
%, you do. do your yelled Jim. Wen
see if you keep it that way, Come out
of this and he dragged him out of the
chair and began swinging him around
close TO the floor and knocking the
chairs in all directions Take that.
an that. he whooped. and he wound
him around the stove half dozen
times. Don't want your hair cut,
hey? Too stingy TO get it moved, are
your Want TO beat poor, quiet bar
Der out of half dollar, do you? Coin
to cut your own hair after this, mebby?
And all this time he kept hitting at him
with chair leg Now We'll see about
it, And he got the minister down ON
the floor on his face and reached for q
pair of clippers. and in five minutes the
preachers head looked as if it had been
sandpapercd. and Jim had picked his
pocket of half dollar and showed him
out Of the door. and thrown his hat and
Overcoat after him. Jim was great
man for shop in getting hair-cuts.
Before spring there wasn't enough hair
on all our customers heads to wad
gun.
He was just like that about every
thing. Every body had to take bay
rum, hair oil. powder, and the whole
list One time big rich capitalist
from St. Louis who had come out to
buy gold mines objected. Don't want
oil. hey?' howled jim. Think our oil
amt good. mebby?' And he got the
man by the throat and began shooting
the oil all over him. Got an idea you
can come in here and run the shop,
reckon. Think cause YOU got plug
hat an double chin that you can do
as you please?' And all the time squirt.
squirt went the hair oil all over the st.
Louis man. There. roared Jim, as
the last of the oil went in the mans
eye and he broke the bottle over his
head, there. take that an get out of
here. an if you stay in Denver over
two hours longer I'll shoot you on
sight"
Powerful inventive. too, Jim was
made wise something like they use OIL
a carpenters bench and attached it to
the chair to put the mans head in.
Then he would screw it up tight TO hold
'em still. He said he couldn't bear to
have a mans head rolling around while
he was shaving him. He believed IN
Side-whiSkerS exclusively foo Made